Six courses, 34 dishes, nothing hidden

The menu

Prices include everything printed. Ramen can be made with a half portion of noodles at no charge, and a second portion, kaedama, is three dollars. Ask for it before you finish the broth.

• Ramen7 dishes
• Tsumami7 dishes
• Donburi5 dishes
• Plant-based5 dishes
• Sake, beer and tea8 dishes
• Sweets4 dishes

ラーメン

Ramen

Seven bowls built on five broths. Noodles cut in-house every morning.

• Tonkotsu豚骨

  $19

  Eighteen hours of Big Island pork femur and trotter boiled hard until the collagen emulsifies. Shoyu tare, thin hosomen noodles, chashu belly, ajitama, kikurage, scallion, nori.

  SignatureContains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, pork, fish

• Shoyu醤油

  $18

  Clear chicken and kombu broth pulled at a bare tremble for six hours, seasoned with a two-year barrel shoyu tare. Medium chijiremen, chicken chashu, menma, naruto, scallion.

  Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, fish

• Shio kaiso塩海藻

  $19

  Salt tare cut with Kauai sea salt and three seaweeds. Chicken and dried scallop broth, thin noodles, poached shrimp, yuzu zest, watercress from Sumida Farm.

  Contains: gluten, egg, soy, shellfish, fish

• Spicy miso辛味噌

  $20

  Three-miso tare with red aka miso leading, loosened into tonkotsu. Thick futomen noodles, ground pork sofrito, corn, bean sprouts, chili threads, butter if you want it.

  SignatureSpice 3Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, pork, fish, dairy

• Tantanmen担々麺

  $21

  Sesame paste and soy milk broth over chili oil, thin noodles, minced pork with preserved mustard greens, bok choy, cashew crumble, black vinegar drizzle.

  Spice 4Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, peanut / tree nut, pork

• Kombu shiitake昆布椎茸

  $18

  No animal stock anywhere. Cold-steeped kombu and Hamakua shiitake dashi, white miso tare, medium noodles, charred cabbage, confit garlic, sansho oil, crisp tofu.

  SignatureSpice 1VeganContains: gluten, soy

• Tsukemenつけ麺

  $22

  Dipping style. Cold thick noodles rinsed and served dry beside a concentrated pork and fish broth, chashu ends, menma, half ajitama, sudachi. Ask for soup-wari at the end.

  Spice 1Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, pork, fish

All ramen can be made with a half portion of noodles at no charge. Extra noodles, kaedama, are $3.

つまみ

Tsumami

Counter snacks. Order two or three before the noodles hit the water.

• Pork gyoza餃子

  $11

  Six pieces. Big Island pork shoulder, Nalo cabbage, garlic chive, folded by hand at 7 am. Pan-steamed with a lace skirt, black vinegar and chili oil.

  Spice 1Contains: gluten, soy, sesame, pork

• Shoyu karaage唐揚げ

  $13

  Thigh marinated overnight in shoyu, ginger and sake, dredged in potato starch, fried twice. Served with yuzu kosho mayonnaise and a lemon wedge.

  Spice 1Contains: gluten, egg, soy

• Ajitama味玉

  $4

  One soy-cured egg, cooked six and a half minutes, chilled hard, then marinated 12 hours in tare and mirin. Jammy centre, never chalky.

  Contains: egg, soy, gluten

• Chashu plateチャーシュー

  $14

  Four slices of the belly we braise for the tonkotsu, torched, brushed with tare, finished with karashi mustard and shaved onion.

  Spice 1Contains: soy, gluten, sesame, pork

• Cucumber sunomono酢の物

  $8

  Smashed Japanese cucumber, rice vinegar, kombu salt, toasted sesame, shiso. Dressed to order so it never weeps.

  VeganContains: sesame, soy

• Charred garlic edamame枝豆

  $9

  Blistered in a dry wok, tossed with confit garlic, Kauai sea salt and a squeeze of lime.

  VeganContains: soy

• Kauai shrimp tempura海老天

  $16

  Three head-on prawns from a Kekaha pond, ice-cold batter, fried at 355F, served with tentsuyu and grated daikon.

  Contains: gluten, egg, shellfish, soy, fish

丼

Donburi

Rice bowls from the same pots. Lunch-sized, ready in six minutes.

• Chashu donチャーシュー丼

  $15

  Torched belly over koshihikari rice, tare reduction, ajitama half, pickled ginger, scallion, nori strips.

  Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame, pork

• Karaage don唐揚げ丼

  $15

  Double-fried thigh, yuzu kosho mayonnaise, shredded cabbage, sesame, house tsukemono.

  Spice 1Contains: gluten, egg, soy, sesame

• Shoyu ahi don鮪丼

  $19

  Ahi cut to order, shoyu and sesame dressing, sweet onion, limu, macadamia crumble, rice at body temperature.

  Contains: soy, sesame, fish, peanut / tree nut, gluten

• Mapo tofu don麻婆丼

  $14

  Silken tofu from a Kalihi maker, doubanjiang, Sichuan pepper, ground pork, garlic chive. Numbing rather than burning.

  Spice 4Contains: soy, gluten, pork, sesame

• Market vegetable don野菜丼

  $14

  Whatever the Hamakua and Nalo boxes brought that morning, charred and glazed with white miso, over rice with crisp tofu and sansho oil.

  Spice 1VeganContains: soy, gluten

精進

Plant-based

Cooked on a separate station with its own pot, basket and boards.

• Kombu shiitake ramen昆布椎茸ラーメン

  $18

  The full vegan bowl: cold-steeped kombu and toasted Hamakua shiitake dashi, white miso tare, charred cabbage, confit garlic, sansho oil, crisp tofu.

  SignatureSpice 1VeganContains: gluten, soy

• Spicy sesame ramen胡麻担々

  $19

  Tantanmen built without pork: ground walnut and shiitake in place of the mince, soy milk, house sesame paste, chili oil, bok choy.

  Spice 4VeganContains: gluten, soy, sesame, peanut / tree nut

• Market vegetable don野菜丼

  $14

  The morning's island produce, charred and glazed with white miso, over rice with crisp tofu.

  Spice 1VeganContains: soy, gluten

• Agedashi tofu揚げ出し豆腐

  $10

  Kalihi silken tofu, potato starch, fried and dropped into a kombu shiitake broth with grated daikon and scallion.

  VeganContains: soy

• Charred Nalo greens青菜

  $9

  Whatever green is best that week, blistered hard, dressed in white miso, rice vinegar and sansho.

  VeganContains: soy

Our noodles contain wheat. A rice-noodle swap is available on any plant-based dish for $2.

酒

Sake, beer and tea

A short list, chosen to sit beside broth rather than compete with it.

• Junmai, Yamada Nishiki純米

  $14

  Rice polished to 70 percent. Nihonshu-do +4, dry and savoury with a rice-cracker finish. Room temperature or warmed to 105F.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

  Tonkotsu, chashu plate. Dry and structured enough for emulsified pork fat.

• Ginjo, Omachi吟醸

  $17

  Polished to 55 percent. Nihonshu-do +2, melon and white pear, best at 50F. The bottle we open most often.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

  Shio kaiso, ahi don, shrimp tempura. Aromatic and light enough for shellfish and raw fish.

• Nigori, unfilteredにごり

  $15

  Coarsely filtered, cloudy, faintly sweet at minus 8. Shake once, serve very cold.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

  Tantanmen, spicy miso. Residual sweetness is the fastest way to calm chili heat.

• Sparkling sake, 300ml発泡

  $22

  Bottle-fermented, 7 percent, dry. Poured cold into a flute. Serves two as an aperitif.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

• Rice lager, draftビール

  $8

  Brewed on Oahu with 30 percent rice. Crisp, 4.6 percent, poured at 38F into a frozen glass.

  VeganContains: gluten

  Spicy miso, gyoza. Carbonation clears chili oil and pan-fried crust.

• Yuzu highballハイボール

  $13

  Japanese whisky, soda, fresh yuzu, one long ice spear. Built in the glass, never shaken.

  VeganContains: gluten

• Hojichaほうじ茶

  $5

  Roasted stems, brewed at 195F for 45 seconds. Free refills, hot or over ice.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

  Shoyu ramen. Roast on roast, and no alcohol to blunt a delicate broth.

• Genmaicha玄米茶

  $5

  Green tea with toasted rice, brewed at 175F. The house pot for anyone eating the vegan bowl.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

Sake by the 180ml carafe unless noted. We are happy to pour a 60ml taste of anything open.

甘味

Sweets

Four small finishes. None of them will beat you after a bowl of tonkotsu.

• Black sesame soft serve黒胡麻

  $8

  Ground black sesame folded into a low-overrun base, finished with kinako and Maldon salt.

  Contains: dairy, sesame, soy

• Matcha affogato抹茶

  $10

  Ceremonial-grade matcha whisked to order and poured over vanilla ice cream at the table.

  Contains: dairy

• Yuzu sorbet柚子

  $7

  Yuzu juice and peel, cane sugar, a pinch of salt. No dairy, no egg, scooped hard.

  VeganNo tracked allergens

• Daifuku trio大福

  $9

  Three mochi pounded on the morning shift: red bean, lilikoi curd, and toasted coconut.

  Contains: dairy